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Fashion is on display during the press preview for the The Costume InstituteÂs exhibition "About Time: Fashion and Duration" on October 26, 2020, which will be on view from October 29, 2020 to February 7, 2021 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The show traces 150 years of fashion, from 1870 to the present, along a disrupted timeline, in honor of the MuseumÂs 150th anniversary. TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP.
by Thomas Urbain
NEW YORK (AFP).- Whether by repetition, rupture or reinvention, fashion has always maintained a complex relationship to time, a link New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is exploring in a new exhibition opening Thursday. The show, delayed for months by the pandemic, was also tweaked last minute to take into account the Black Lives Matter movement that galvanized the nation this summer. Normally the city's social event of the year, 2020's Met Gala organized by Vogue Editor-In-Chief Anna Wintour -- which usually opens the costume exhibit -- was cancelled, like every major indoor gathering since mid-March. To fete the 150th anniversary of the Met, Andrew Bolton, head curator of the Costume Institute, aimed to highlight the museum's own collection that includes 33,000 pieces of clothing and accessories. "When I began working on the show, it started off as this sort of meditation on fashion and temporality," he told a pr ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Workers renovate the Tower of David Museum in the ancient citadel of Jerusalem near the Jaffa Gate entrance to Jerusalem's Old City on October 28, 2020. The Tower of David Museum will undergo a massive upgrade and showcase 3000 years of Jerusalem's art, culture, heritage, and history, as part of a $40 million renewal and conservation plan for the iconic site at the entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP
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 | | Misogyny in art? Spain's Prado pleads guilty | | Baltimore Museum of Art issues statement on deaccession and future plans | | The Phillips Collection announces new acquisitions | 
Joaquina Serrano Painting in Espalters Studio JoaquÃn Espalter y Rull (1809-1880) Oil on canvas c. 1876 Madrid, Museo Nacional del Romanticismo.
by Marie Giffard
MADRID (AFP).- Slave, witch, prostitute or mother: a new exhibit at Spain's Prado explores how misogyny influenced the way women were portrayed in art, and the role that the museum itself played. "Uninvited Guests", the museum's first post-lockdown exhibition, is divided into sections with names such as "mothers under judgement", "guidance for the wayward" and "the art of indoctrination". One of the aims is to put the spotlight on "an ideology, a State propaganda regarding the female figure", which existed between 1833 and 1931, curator Carlos Navarro told AFP. The artworks from this period reveal a "bourgeois thinking which sought to validate the role that society attributed to women," he added. With this show the Prado, one of Europe's finest painting collections which celebrated its 200th anniversary last year, hopes ... More | | 
The museum decided to pause on the upcoming sale of works. Photo by Mitro Hood.
BALTIMORE, MD.- Today, The Baltimore Museum of Arts (BMA) Board of Trustees and its leadership decided to pause on the upcoming sale of works by Brice Marden, Clyfford Still, and Andy Warhol. The decision was made after having heard and listened to the proponents and the detractors of the BMAs ambitious Endowment for the Future and after a private conversation between the BMAs leadership and the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD). As part of todays statement, we want to affirm our goals as we envisioned them in relation to the Endowment for the Future. We believe unequivocally that museums exist to serve their communities through experiences with art and artists. We firmly believe that museums and their collections have been built on structures that we must work, through bold and tangible action, to reckon with, modify, and reimagine as structures that will meet the demands of the future. We believe that this effort is ... More | | 
Los Carpinteros, Cachita, 2013. Powder coated aluminum, LED lights © Los Carpinteros. Collection of Aaron and Barbara.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Phillips Collection has announced major new acquisitions including a video by John Akomfrah, a two-panel fabric work by Benny Andrews, a large-scale wall-hanging by Aimé Mpane, and others. These new acquisitions reflect the museums efforts to enhance and diversify the collection by embracing works that reflect a narrative of modern and contemporary art beyond the traditional focus on European and American art, and also speak to the communities we hope to serve. The Phillipss collection has always evolved and grown through gifts and purchases. Works by Benny Andrews and John Akomfrah, artists who were highlighted in our recent exhibition The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement, are intense expressions that speak to urgent issues of our time, said The Phillips Collection Vradenburg Director and CEO Dorothy Kosinski. As we approach our 100th anniversary ... More |
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| | 'Pioneer' octogenarian Vietnamese artist gets first solo exhibit | | Tracey Emin explores love, loss and longing in new exhibition at Xavier Hufkens | | New York seeks art tax whistleblowers | 
This photograph taken on October 8, 2020 shows 89-year-old Vietnamese artist Mong Bich painting at her house in Bac Ninh province, east of Hanoi. Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP.
by Alice Philipson
HANOI (AFP).- Aged almost 90, Vietnamese artist Mong Bich picks a spot on the tiled floor of her favourite room, checks the light and sits down to paint. A "pioneer" who has inspired generations of women artists in Vietnam, Bich has won plaudits overseas and she has a watercolour in the British Museum's collection. But for years she has been overlooked in her home country -- and has had to wait until this month for her first solo exhibition. "Painting is like eating rice for me -- I have to eat rice and I have to paint," Bich told AFP at her home on the outskirts of Hanoi, where she still works for up to eight hours a day. At first, she had hesitated over holding a solo show, but her children encouraged it. "I do not want to sell my work so I did not see the point. My paintings are my memories," she said ahead ... More | | 
Tracey Emin, Detail of Love, 2020. Edition of 3, neon 134 Ã 151.2 cm, 52 3⁄4 Ã 59 1⁄2 in. Courtesy the artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels. Photo: HV-studio.
BRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens is presenting Tracey Emins new exhibition with the gallery, Detail of Love. On this occasion, the artist explores love, loss and longing through two distinct bodies of work: a group of large-scale paintings and a series of poignant gouaches created in her London home. In the works on paper, Emin charts the bittersweet nature of unconditional love and how the domestic sphere can function as a site of catharsis and consolation. And while the power of recollection also underpins her paintings, these larger works address the altogether different realm of physical intimacy and passion. Drawing upon her own memories and emotions, Emins recent series of works on canvas explore the turbulent and often ambiguous emotions associated with sex and desire. Rather than painting literal depictions of precise events, Emin captures the emotions they awaken, be they those she felt at the time or how she feels about the ... More | | 
Sales and use tax scams by art collectors and galleries are particularly rampant.
NEW YORK, NY.- According to famed economist Nouriel Roubini, "While art looks as if it is all about beauty, as a business it is full of shady stuff." The global art market is estimated to be valued at up to $70 billion per year in transactions. The opaque and unregulated nature of this market makes it particularly susceptible to fraudulent activity, including tax frauds. Tax frauds involving art come in many different flavors. Given New York's prominence in the art world, many of these scams victimize State and City residents by illegally avoiding sales, use and income taxes. Sales and use tax scams by art collectors and galleries are particularly rampant. People who hang art in their New York homes must pay New York sales taxes when they purchase art in New York¬¬, or New York use taxes when they display or store art in New York that they bought elsewhere. However, many people sometimes in collusion with New York galleries buy art from New York galleries ... More |
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| | Amon Carter announces new acquisitions by Charles White, Wendy Red Star, Sandy Rodriguez and Justin Favela | | Souls Grown Deep launches Resale Royalty Award Program for African American artists | | Christie's announces Hong Kong to New York - A 20th Century Relay Auction | 
Charles Wilbert White, Love Letter I, 1971. Color lithograph. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas. Purchase with funds provided by the Cynthia Brants Trust. © 1971 The Charles White Archives.
FORT WORTH, TX.- Today, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art announced the acquisition of works by Charles White, Wendy Red Star, Sandy Rodriquez, and Justin Favela, adding significant works by a diverse roster of artists to the museums renowned photography and works on paper collections. The acquisitions, a color screenprint and a series of eight lithographs examining minimalism and the Latinx experience by Justin Favela; a 15-print series of montages connecting archival representations of Indigenous people to the contemporary Apsáalooke experience by Wendy Red Star; a large-scale watercolor map tracing children killed in the custody of US Customs and Border Protection by Sandy Rodriguez; and a rare lithograph triptych by Charles White, further the museums mission to tell the diverse and wide-ranging stories of artists working in America. These ... More | | 
Joe Minter, The Hanging Tree, 1996. Welded found metal, 83 1/2 x 49 1/2 x 49 1/2 in. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Museum Purchase and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation © Joe Minter / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio.
ATLANTA, GA.- Souls Grown Deep Foundation is launching a Resale Royalty Award Program, its most significant effort thus far to recognize with a monetary award the African American artists whose works are represented in its collection. The program will bestow monetary awards to living artists who are part of the Foundations collection and whose works have since been sold at auction, in galleries, and to museums through Souls Grown Deeps Collection Transfer Program. The awards celebrate the contributions of these artists to their communities and the art world through appropriate financial recognition, empower and invest in the artists future creative output, and continue to promote the public understanding and value of African American art and artists from the South. Due to the legacy of systemic racial ... More | | 
The relay format reprises the signature pass-the-gavel concept first introduced with Christies ONE sale in July. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies continues to introduce new innovations to the traditional auction calendar this season with a special livestreamed event on December 2: a relay auction of 20th Century Art connecting collectors across time zones, beginning in Hong Kong and continuing on to New York. Featuring works by Yayoi Kusama, Georges Mathieu, Yoshitomo Nara and Andy Warhol in Hong Kong, and Joan Mitchell, Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet and Alexander Calder in New York, this new addition to the auction calendar unites the annual Autumn auction series in Hong Kong (Nov 27-Dec 5) with the final 20th Century marquee week of the fall season in New York (Dec 2-4). Further highlights will be announced in the coming weeks. The relay format reprises the signature pass-the-gavel concept first introduced with Christies ONE sale in July, beginning with the auctioneer in Hong Kong who will conduct the first leg of the relay sale from the rostrum at the ... More |
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| | Carmine Bruno announces new global marketplace for high-end furniture, antiques and collectibles | | Gifts from Queen Victoria to her goddaughters set to make thousands at Cheffins auction house in Cambridge | | Christie's announces November Latin American Art sales | 
The Bruno Effect will launch in Spring 2021.
LONDON.- Founder of early digital success story, Online Galleries, and former Managing Director of 1stdibs international region, Carmine Bruno, announces his new venture: an international marketplace that will set a new standard for dealing antiques and furniture online. By blending the global reach and sourcing opportunities presented by online technology with the freedom to communicate, negotiate and purchase outside the platform, The Bruno Effect enables a return to the traditions of the trade, buoyed by the power of digital innovation to the benefit of both dealers and their clients, for whom well-curated, vetted and specialist marketplaces are essential. With a commission-free model as its guiding principle, The Bruno Effect offers membership to dealers on a strictly invitation-only basis. It is built on the knowledge that there is a better way to buy and sell online and that it is human connection, not corporate intervention, that creates lasting business success. ... More | | 
A locket gifted to the Queens goddaughter, Lady Victoria Scott, is available at the Cheffins sale. Set with diamonds, emeralds and rubies, it carries an estimate of £3,000 - £5,000.
CAMBRIDGE.- Gifts from Queen Victoria to two of her goddaughters will go under the hammer on 5th November at Cheffins in Cambridge as part of the Jewellery, Silver, Watches and Wine sale. The collections relationship with Queen Victoria began with Charlotte Anne Thynne who was mistress of the robes to the Queen from 1841 onwards. Charlotte Anne Thynne married Walter Francis Montague Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch, on 13th March 1829. The couple were close friends of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who regularly visited their home in Dalkeith, Scotland. The Duke and Duchesss daughter, Victoria Alexandria Montagu Douglas-Scott was Queen Victorias goddaughter. A locket gifted to the Queens goddaughter, Lady Victoria Scott, is available at the Cheffins sale. Set with ... More | | 
Wifredo Lam (1902-1982), Femme Cheval. Oil on canvas, 49 x 42½ in. Painted in 1955. Estimate: $2,700,000-3,700,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies presents two November sales for Latin American Art with a live auction taking place on 13 November, and a concurrent online-only auction running 6-18 November. The sales will offer modern and contemporary masterpieces from artists such as Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Francisco Toledo, Fernando Botero, Matta and Wifredo Lam, alongside a selection of 17th and 18th-century Spanish colonial paintings. Leading the sale is Wifredo Lams masterpiece Femme Cheval (estimate $2,700,000-$3,700,000), one of just a handful of works still in private hands from the artists sought-after 1950s series. Other examples of Femme Cheval paintings are held in major museums throughout Europe and the Americas. The dramatic horse-woman embodies the international, syncretic nature of Lams work, combining Afro-Cuban imagery with Surrealist and Cubist ... More |
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Allan WexlerÂs Parsons Product Design Students: Memorial for Milton Glaser
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 Playthings for adults and children - bears, dolls & trains - go to auctionSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will offer Bears, Dolls & Trains on Sunday, November 15, 2020. The auction presents a wide selection of playthings or collectibles beloved by children of all ages from young to old. With over 230 lots, the sale features many vintage Steiff animals, including large store display models; a variety of vintage dolls; and an array of O and S gauge trains, mostly from American manufacturers, and related accessories and other items. From the very popular Nancy Glenn estate, the Steiff offerings showcase a vast menagerie, including bears, rabbits, ponies, pumas, lions, monkeys, birds, and a bison, stork, and boar. In addition to many groupings, the sale includes vintage Steiff Limited Edition and Collectors Edition lots, and a number of Steiff hand puppets. There are also large store display animals from the fabled ... More Sullivan+Strumpf to represent acclaimed Australian ceramic artist Lynda Draper SYDNEY.- Sullivan+Strumpf announced the representation of one of Australias finest art practitioners working in the field of ceramics, Illawara based Lynda Draper. Recently recognised in a landmark survey of 100 of the worlds most important clay and ceramic artists (Vitamin C - Clay and Ceramic in Contemporary Art, Phaidon 2017), Draper is known to consistently push the technical limits and conventional aesthetics of the medium. In 2019 she was recognised with Australias most prestigious ceramics prize, the Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award for her multiple-piece work Somnambulism, acquired by the National Gallery of Australia. That work is included in the upcoming National Gallery of Australia exhibition, Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, 14 November 2020 31 January 2021, and is to be featured in a major associated publication ... More Exhibition at Kunsthaus Graz brings together Herbert Brandl's most important groups of worksGRAZ.- Tomorrowa term that is as promising and hopeful as it is vague and elusive. Both utopian and dystopian. Tomorrow, everything could be "better" than today, and yet uncertainty remains. In the long term, nobody knows whether there will be any kind of a tomorrow for humankind. The title conveys the fundamentally conflicting tone of Herbert Brandls exhibition: the artist describes himself as a "passionate pessimist." The Kunsthaus Graz exhibition centres on the artists associative, process-based way of working, interwoven as a convergence of the seen, the experienced and the imagined. Childhood memories and cartoons serve as impulses, as do his own photographs, television images, webcams and current images drawn from the internet. As traces they flow into the painting process, where they are condensed, abstracted or even erased. In response ... More The MAXXI Bvlgari Prize exhibition is now on display at MAXXIROME.- A warning about the future of humanity in Giulia Cenci's zoomorphic sculptures; an ode to freedom and diversity in Tomaso De Luca's video installation; the suspended time of the Sacred Area of Largo Argentina in Renato Leotta's work. Giulia Cenci (Cortona, 1988, lives and works in Amsterdam and Tuscany), Tomaso De Luca (Verona, 1988, lives and works in Berlin) and Renato Leotta (Turin, 1982, lives and works in Turin and Acireale) are the three finalists for the MAXXI BVLGARI PRIZE, the project bringing together MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts and Bvlgari, an emblem of Italian excellence for over 130 years to support and promote young artists. Their site-specific artworks created for the PRIZE will be on show at MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts from 28 October 2020 to 7 March 2021. The exhibition, ... More The Scottish Gallery presents a new collection of works by Lachlan GoudieEDINBURGH.- Lachlan Goudies exhibition at The Scottish Gallery presents a new collection of works, inspired by places that are, or at least may have recently felt far far away. The works bring fairy tales to life, with landscapes and still lifes that are designed to make you daydream. Goudie had originally intended to spend time painting in Mauritius and the Arctic, producing a series of contrasting landscapes. However, Covid-19 interrupted these plans and he instead found himself in the Dorset countryside with his family. As we have all tumbled through the looking glass into a surreal world of lockdown and anxiety, Goudie has escaped into the art of his imagination, watching the seasons change and the landscape alter. He has been strongly influenced by the nightly ritual of reading fairy tales to his young daughter to send her to sleep. Together they journeyed ... More Black art and poetry elevate a tribute to Civil Rights leadersNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- During the past several months, between the scourge of COVID-19 and the spate of Black deaths resulting from police brutality, Blackness has become a concept loaded with fresh injuries. In The Baptism, a short, abstract video tribute to Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., and civil rights leader C.T. Vivian, Blackness isnt divorced from the tragedies but carefully picked apart and examined through an existential lens. The result is a work that is freeing and radical in a way that Black art so often doesnt get to be. Commissioned by Lincoln Center, The Baptism features a three-part poem written and performed by poet Carl Hancock Rux, and is directed by acclaimed visual artist Carrie Mae Weems. Though it is a memorial to two towering Black civil rights leaders, both of whom died on the same day this year ... More Watch Ai Weiwei make history in Piccadilly Circus with hour long film presentationLONDON.- Circa 20:20, a new work by Ai Weiwei, will break a new record on Saturday 31 October at 20:20 for the longest ever single piece of content to be shown on Piccadilly Lights in Piccadilly Circus, Europes largest screen. Pausing the adverts for just over one hour, the film combines 30 parts from his month-long residency on Piccadilly Lights commissioned by CIRCA, an innovative new digital arts platform which commissions some of the worlds leading artists to create new work in response to the world, circa 2020. Ai Weiwei said: Circa 20:20 at Piccadilly Circus in London is an opportunity for me to produce a public, visual presentation related to my past. The clips form a 60-minute long program, an episodic, visual narrative consisting of images, videos, sound, and poetry relating to my art and social and political activism. Providing the public ... More Marie-Laure Fleisch exhibits work by Bettina Samson, Jennifer Tee, and Joani TremblayBRUSSELS.- For the exhibition Not so far from us, MLF | Marie-Laure Fleisch is presenting work by Bettina Samson, Jennifer Tee, and Joani Tremblay. These three practices may look distanced from one another, but they all relate by their capacity to enlighten specific archetypes: those of the esoteric world. Inspired by ancestral rites, ceremonies, or even utopias from the New Age culture, the artists attest to the fact that art does not only allow us to address contemporary issues, but also to open doors to the world of the intangible. Although our society may be the perfect representation of scientific and technological advancement, it remains imbued with spiritualism. The cartesian spirit of our time does not escape from our collective unconscious and the beliefs we inherited from it. But the artists are not trying to simply update an esoteric ... More The Korean Cultural Centre UK opens a solo exhibition of work by Seoul-based artist Jewyo RhiiLONDON.- The Korean Cultural Centre UK, London and Locus+ are presenting the solo exhibition Love Your Depot from Seoul-based artist Jewyo Rhii, marking her nomination as 2020 Artist of the Year - the KCCUKs major annual award programme. Part of an ongoing project which awarded Rhii the 2019 Korea Artist Prize for her show at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, the exhibition at KCCUK is reconstituted as a multi-purpose, multi-dimensional presentation. At once a physical storage space for artworks and a workspace for creative activities - including a gallery for other artists - Rhii also brings the show to the digital realm, creating an accompanying online platform. A towering, modular steel structure occupies the central exhibition space, boasting an array of paintings and drawings which hang ... More Bronze of renowned racehorse formerly owned by Sir Stanley Clarke CBE to go up for auctionLONDON.- A bronze sculpture of Lord Gyllene, the New Zealand-bred racehorse that won the Grand National in 1997, is to be offered at auction. Created by the celebrated Royal equine artist and sculptor Caroline Wallace, the bronze was commissioned by well-known English businessman and famous horse-race breeder, Stanley W. Clarke CBE (1933-2004), who owned the real-life Lord Gyllene, who died in 2016. The impressive work in patinated bronze, portrays the famous racehorse standing with a dog and cat resting at its feet and was previously exhibited at the National Horseracing Museum. It is one of the highlights of Dreweatts sale of Fine Furniture, Sculpture, Ceramics and Carpets on December 10, 2020 and is estimated to fetch £30,000-£40,000. Clarke presented the work to the Animal Health Trust in 1999, in the presence of Her ... More Cooke Latham Gallery features works by Rose Davey, Leah Guadagnoli and Erin O'KeefeLONDON.- Imagine you are looking at a house in the sun. The front is illuminated, and you appreciate the crispness of the red brick against the sky. Now turn to the shaded side of the house. The bricks are the same orange-red, but look closely. Can you see that they look colder, bluer even? The hot red brick advances towards you, whilst the shadow recedes coolly into the background: a phenomenon often used by painters to create the illusion of depth. However, the three artists gathered for Conversations in Colour use paint rather differently, invoking the feeling of space rather than its literal depiction. Rose Daveys free-standing panels continue her obsession with the frame. Davey is a connoisseur of the shimmering stillness of a plane of colour, of the vibrating harmony that occurs at the border of the two tones. Davey has described ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, landscape architect Harriet Pattison was born October 29, 1928. Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1928, Pattison earned her B.A. from the University of Chicago. In 1958, she met architect Louis Kahn. Kahn played an instrumental role in PattisonÂs life, encouraging her studies in landscape architecture and fathering her son Nathaniel in 1962. Her broad-ranging oeuvre includes the master plan for the Hershey Food CorporationÂs Pennsylvania headquarters. In this image: Harriet Pattison, 2015. Photo by Barrett Doherty, courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation.
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